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Titled: The Old Homestead: Barnyard. Signed On The Lower Left. Signs of previous repairs and restoration are present. Photographs display conditional issues on the painting. Measures Approximately 88in x 165in. Artwork measures approximately 74in x 150in. 400 jg

  • Exhibited: This piece once was commissioned and owned by John Wanamaker. It reportedly hung in the Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia PA and was eventually passed down to John Wanamaker’s nephew, William H. Wanamaker Jr.
  • Literature: The peak of Nicholson's career extended from the mid-1880s through the 1890s. Around 1885 he painted several successful large canvases involving figures. One of his largest commissions was a seven-by-fourteen foot mural titled The Old Homestead, which was finished in March 1892 and placed on display at the original Wanamaker's department store in Philadelphia.[29] A smaller version of The Old Homestead was used in a very different sort of commission: It was reproduced on the label of Canavan's Old Homestead Rye Whiskey.[30] The large mural was still at Wanamaker's Chestnut Street store in 1950, although its current location is unknown; the smaller version was sold at Christie's in 1993 and is now in a private collection." (31)
    Figures were more important in The Old Homestead than in most of Nicholson's paintings. A critic for The Philadelphia Press reviewed the mural favorably, commenting that "The subject is excellently treated and one can almost imagine that the figures are real, so true are the colorings and so life-like."[32] Another writer complimented Nicholson on its "general effect, perspective and composition."[33] The commission may have resulted from connections among his clientele, as John Wanamaker's mother-in-law was a member of the Deshong family and Alfred O. Deshong was a major patron of the artist's work
    A painting titled After the Day's Toil, 34" x 56" in size, was sold at Christie's New York, Rockefeller Plaza, on 12/03/93, lot 128. A photograph of the same painting appears in the Artist's File at the Frick Art Reference Library, where it is titled The Old Homestead: Farmyard. This is probably the smaller version of the Wanamaker mural.

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